Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-06
BlreIin9 Register
SETTINGS FROM SAM JONES.

Boston HcrUli.
I am not any sensational goose.
Let us have no one-hOrse religion.
Fun is the next best thing to religion.
despiSe the little two wheeled Chris
tianS.
One of the best Christians l ever knew
was a lawyer.
Religion is only love going about doing
something.
Even his toes were at work while / was
preaching.
God pity the man who has got a forked-
tongued wife.
The happiest creature is he who has a
thought for himself.
Id rather be a noble, generous sinner
than a stingy Methodist.
The hardest fellow l have to deal with
l. nv wite'S husband.
sin not only makes a man wicked, but
II makes a fool OF him.
Ii is mighty hard to keep n 2OO-pOund
fat. sleek Methodist straight.
do not know any human being who has
any special claims ON God.
man will never be what he ought to
he until YOU show him what he Is.
The head and the heart in conjunction
are what 20 TO make up a good preacher.
The creed that is no good ut all Is thef
nv which men claim to be the elect.
God never made two men alike, and, II
H. did. one OF them was OF no account.
have seen many a cultured man who
has not sense enough to keep sober.
There are some men in the pulpit who
are only preachers, and not much at b
=. II - V,n, ON earth that
vou can hank on, II Is Methodist preachers.
Where Is the preacher who Is not striy-
ING tor a larger church and \ bigger sal
arys
Ii Won want a powerful preacher, quit
talking about him and 90 to praying for
HIM
u Is about rs hard to get ready to hear
a sermon Is it Is To get ready to preach
one.
What is 4 creed but IN old skin stuffed
with Sawdust, good To be exchanged in n
museum?
man isn't a sinner because he is an in
fdrl. hut ne is An nfidel because he Is a
sinner.
Jesus would put the angels ON half IA
tons before he would let a soldier IN his
AMY suffer.
4 man will get twice rs tired preaching
himself once rs he would preaching the
Lord Jesus Christ 4 hundred times.
How the people shun the poor in the
church and look close after the old ColOnelS
and Judges.
THERE'S nothing on earth worse than sell
iishucSS, and1ell Is nothing but s~eliShneSs
ON fire.
1t IS mighty hard for a woman to he 4
Christian when her cook has got more re-
lgion than she has.
Heaven is Just the other side of where a
man has done his level hest through and
through.
[ have been a pastor, but never allowed
any one hut the cripple OF the sick man 10
ude me.
let Us leave of singing about the Sweet
by,and hy," and sing about the sweet now
aud now.
wish you could all get 50 you would
he afraid at lire. | want all my tire this
side ct the grave
will not call any names, Tor every fell
low will know his number. and when you
are hit. run and boiler.
This world has been keeping its ayes
hthtl 10 Hs'"' NNsAtFf ~AN ~ N-Ng ~
never seen a good man want
Now. I have had a constitutional, solid,
concentrated, upright, downright hatred
for >hamS all my life.
Hope Is a mile past on the road to heaven
To tell q fellow Just how Tar he has got and
where the end II.
Where the pulpit stands exclusively on
the divine side Of the Gospel, | can show
yuu q iruItlc~S ministry.
lett my feelings at home, Tor | thought
some fool m Eu>tuu might hurt them II l
brought them along.
WHEN the soul longs Tor Christ in pref
ercncc tn an things else, then that soul -
the center uf gClyity to Christ.
What YOU did with the grIce you got
yesterday Will determine largely what you
will receive OF grace today.
II dul, help a fellow nightly once IN a
while To grt sick anil shake him over a cot
i'm Every four or i've years.
That fellow living la the gutter drunk Is
ah.ttrr man i'm the sight OF GOd than those
fellows talking about him.
These religious womcn who are gaddlng
about all over creation and neglectlng their
homes don't like them.
Avery tn revival ought to begin in the
heart OF tine preacher. lOu cannot have
d, with nm iriclr IN the pulpit.
Vow the best way 10 Kill a fellow l. with
love. Iud then you don't have to bury hlm,
and his wife Is hot a widow.
Nntt'~ the Use I'M shouting when We are
IN debt. Fay no and then shout. Let uS
keep the pies and cakes tor desert.
Whenever Won see 4 preacher who has
visited "a good deal, | will show yOu a
preacher who l. not much at preaching.
The man vino hears Ia the greatest profit
what his pastor has tn LAY il the man who
has prepared himself to her it.
S,u- pruuir come Ia church to get some
thing L. make them feel well, Just rs IN
old topper who .uc, To the groG shop.
Repentance ui u soul on it, way to God
Is Just like what IN" alphabet Is 10 a hui
man being when he i first learning il.
Mast auybody can du a thing they feel
his" doing. hut II takes a true MAI To do a
thing when he dy>u't feel like doing it.
want To STE the day when voluntary
contributions will support the church, and
aud when II will he u crime to hire a pew
init
Ne always have got enough nice people
wv '"'N 'bNl NbF uNt pShlN'hl' L "@hb
ALWAYS To look after the ruined and de
graded
I>ry tootherS: lt Won have ahOok and pail
that has more SoulSiu them than me, | will
swap with You and give all to boot can.
hen a man hts morereligiou than sense
hrsa fool. when he has more sense than
Religion he's a rascal nine times out OF ten.
The power OF the pulpit is in the pew.
It's rough tn put a preacher in q ice-boN,
anu IN" curse him because he viii not
sweat Z
10 you were to pardon a sinner and leave
hm alone, Just rs he Is, he would be hack
again like the hog, aud wallOw in his dirt
II Is y"ur pride To take y stranger To the
Common and the gilded dome, but for
'"i sake TO not take u into your hack
yuls.
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